Job Description

A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions.

We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI‑powered, cloud‑native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi‑cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey.

About this team:

The Product Security Platform Partnerships team is composed of security engineers working to ensure HashiCorp delivers secure software to its customers. We work closely with product engineering teams at HashiCorp, enabling them to write secure code and embed security into the development processes. We are responsible for design review, threat modeling, and code review of new features, as well as vulnerability management across our entire product portfolio.

Your role and responsibilities

We are looking for a Product Security Engineer II to help scale our product security function, partnering closely with Research & Development teams to ensure that security is appropriately addressed across the HashiCorp suite of cloud, self‑managed, and community products.

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

• Contribute to secure architecture and design of HashiCorp products, across our cloud, self‑managed, and community product portfolio.
• Work across various R&D teams to prioritize security features and bugs, and ensure implementation and mitigations.
• Monitor threats and vulnerabilities impacting HashiCorp products and services; triage reported vulnerabilities, identify mitigations and assess/communicate associated risk.
• Act as SME on multiple information security areas (e.g. security architecture, application security, threat modeling etc.).
• Plan & execute security assessments (dynamic testing, static testing, code review, etc.) and threat modeling of HashiCorp’s products, services, and associated cloud infrastructure.
• Assist in execution of 3rd‑party audits, penetration tests, and bug bounty programs.
• Contribute to the development of security solutions across the product life‑cycle, such as standalone security tools, CI/CD pipeline integrations, product security features/fixes, etc.
• Contribute to the creation and delivery of security training.
• Research emerging attack vectors and techniques.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Hands‑on experience in Security.
• Secure development practices, and integration into broader engineering activities.
• Security design / architecture and threat modeling.
• Product and service architectures in modern, multi‑tenant cloud environments (IaaS, SaaS, PaaS).
• Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Secure operations practices, specifically in cloud environments.
• Authentication and Identity management (e.g. SAML, SSO, OIDC, SCIM, etc) security best practices
• Application and infrastructure security testing methodologies and tools.
• Vulnerabilities (old and new), and options for defense / mitigation.
• Product vulnerability management lifecycle.
• Working with and/or supporting product engineering teams.
• Security audits, penetration tests, and/or bug bounty programs.
• Cryptography and cryptographic primitives.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Modern engineering practices, processes, and tools, particularly related to the Go programming language and ecosystem.
• Knowledge of application security topics, a pragmatic approach to security, and the ability to empathize with engineers and product managers across the company.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on‑going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can‑do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full‑time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job‑related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro‑rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

Job Title: Product Security Engineer II - HashiCorp Security

Date posted: 12-Dec-2025

Job ID: 80184

City / Township / Village: LOWELL, San Jose, Austin

State / Province: Texas, Massachusetts, California

Country: United States

Work arrangement: Hybrid

Area of work: Software Engineering

Employment type: Regular

Contract type: Regular

Projected Minimum Salary per year: 111,000.00

Projected Maximum Salary per year: 191,000.00

Position type: Professional

Some travel may be required based on business demand

Company: (0147) International Business Machines Corporation

Shift: General (daytime)

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